The Community of Verdensa is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 411 million Verdensans, 391 million of whom are zombies, are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Verdensan economy, worth 63.1 trillion Nugs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 50,955 Nugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, and the nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verdensa's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Verdensa is ranked 9,070^th in the world and 216^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,828.84 on the Clooney Contribution Index.